Democratic Socialists of America – San Francisco

Category: Red Talks

  • Seattle General Strike 1919

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  • KCTS 9 – History Making: General Strike

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv1TOtm3CGE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] In 1919, workers in Seattle staged the first general strike in the United States. Sixty thousand union men and women walked off their jobs in shipyards, bakeries, restaurants, and lumber mills. This five day citywide shutdown was an important first step in establishing the power of the worker,…

  • Seattle General Strike

    Seattle General Strike The Seattle General Strike of February 1919 was the first city-wide labor action in America to be proclaimed a “general strike.” It led off a tumultuous era of post-World War I labor conflict that saw massive strikes shut down the nation’s steel, coal, and meatpacking industries and…

  • The Wobblies Full Documentary

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  • IWW History Project

    IWW History Project Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World captured the attention of a generation with its fiery rhetoric, daring tactics, and program of revolutionary industrial unionism. Pledging to replace the narrow craft unionism of the American Federal of Labor with massive industrial unions, the organization grew…